Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band · Trout Mask Replica
Well
Well is in D minor at 104.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
104 BPM · Andantemedian of 142 analyses · 103.7–114.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 142people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 575.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 451.7Hz · +45.5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.79dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.921Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.222Essentia's danceability, 0–3
Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.
What the numbers say
142 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 142 readings; 67% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 103.7 to 114.1 BPM.
At 104.2 BPM one beat lasts 575.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 144 ms and a dotted eighth 431.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 208.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 451.7 Hz, which is 45.5 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 6.79 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.921 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.
10 other recordings here are in D minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.
Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Keys that fit with D minor
Each of these differs from D minor by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.
Delay times at 104 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2303.3 | 0.43 |
| Half note | 2 | 1151.6 | 0.87 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 863.7 | 1.16 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 575.8 | 1.74 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 383.9 | 2.61 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 431.9 | 2.32 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 287.9 | 3.47 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 191.9 | 5.21 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 215.9 | 4.63 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 144 | 6.95 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 96 | 10.42 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 72 | 13.89 |
Half time 52.1 BPM · double time 208.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (575.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- FastloveGeorge MichaelD minor104BPM
- I Like DirtRed Hot Chili PeppersD minor105BPM
- Drug BalladEminemD minor105BPM
- It’s Too LateCarole KingD minor104BPM
- Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2Pink FloydD minor104BPM
- The Happiest Days of Our LivesPink FloydD minor104BPM
- You Know I’m No GoodAmy WinehouseD minor104BPM
- The ClairvoyantIron MaidenD minor103BPM
- Who Is ItMichael JacksonD minor103BPM
- I Might Be WrongRadioheadD minor103BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 104 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 104 BPMD minor at 100–109 BPMCaptain Beefheart & His Magic Band
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id dd21f737-cc43-4b61-9b5b-62b33f36777e.